Medal record | ||
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Men's athletics | ||
Representing Great Britain | ||
Paralympic Games | ||
2004 Athens | Discus throw F44/46 | |
2000 Sydney | Discus throw F44/46 | |
2012 London | Discus throw F44 | |
2008 Beijing | Discus throw F44 | |
2016 Rio de Janeiro | Discus throw F44 | |
2020 Tokyo | Discus throw F64 | |
World Championship | ||
2002 Lille | Discus throw F44 | |
2006 Assen | Discus throw F44 | |
2011 Christchurch | Discus throw F44 | |
2013 Lyon | Discus throw F44 | |
2023 Paris | Discus throw F64 | |
European Championships | ||
2003 Assen | ||
2005 Espoo | ||
2014 Swansea | Discus throw F44 | |
2016 Grosseto | Discus throw F44-46 | |
Representing England | ||
Commonwealth Games | ||
2014 Glasgow | Discus throw F42/44 |
Daniel Greaves (born 4 October 1982) is a British athlete who specialises in the discus throw.
Greaves was born in Anstey, Leicestershire in 1982.[1]
Greaves won the gold medal in the F44/46 category discus throw at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, establishing a new world record with a throw of 55.12m.[2] He had previously won silver at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney.[3]
Despite being born with a deformity of the feet, Greaves was selected to join the British able-bodied team in a competition against the United States in 2001.[3]
Greaves competed in the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing,[4] winning a bronze medal in the F44 discus throw.
He broke the world record again at the pre-IPC World Athletics Championships in New Zealand in January 2011, throwing 59.98m on his fourth throw.[5][6]
He won Bronze at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo. In doing so he became the first British track and field athlete to win medals at six consecutive Paralympic Games.